The following poetry films were made by MA students from the Centre for Applied Human Rights as part of the Culture and Protest module. The films are based on verbatim poetry created from interview transcripts from the ‘Navigating Risk, Managing Security, and Receiving Support’ research project led by Dr. Alice …

Broken English Sometimes the English is broken and I don’t fix it. Like the bone that snapped after a misplaced step sent her tumbling. It left the elbow at an angle it was not designed to hold. The joint that healed (while she lay in the camp for the …

Reviews and audience feedback from the sell-out run of ‘A Restless Place’ directed by Katie Posner and produced by Pilot Theatre in collaboration with York Castle Museum as part of Boomerang: the global theatre intervention. Audience Feedback: *** Reviews: Unknown Magazine review *** The Yorkshire Post review *** York Press …

York often smelt of hot chocolate and burnt biscuits. As a student living in the city in the early noughties, this smell was a sensual and essential part of the city’s personality. It lingered on the cobbled lanes and in the marketplace, and at first it felt imagined and universal …